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I don't know what Lichess is, but Debian has plenty of beefy sponsors, including Google and HP. Their monetisation strategy is sponsorship and it works. But they still have monetisation, that's the thing.
I'll be honest, I didn't think about that kind of sponsorship. In my comment I was thinking of something more like the sponsor relationship between Red Hat and Fedora. However... this thread started with you saying Gitea has no future because
Which it definitely does, and is. Gitea also does have sponsors in the same sense as Debian that you mentioned, though not giants like Google or HP.
I also think that saying small projects necessarily stagnate and die is wrong, though, as my other examples show.
I just checked your three examples. All of them accept donations of various forms and Lichess also has a merch shop :)
Oh, by the way, your previous point about piracy. You might not be aware, but it's a huge industry as well with plenty of money going around.
Again, that's fine? You said Gitea has no future because there's no company trying to sell premium features behind it. A merch shop and donations aren't remotely similar to the relationship between Canonical and Ubuntu, and aren't commercializing the project or making its fundamental purpose profit-driven.